Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-08-27
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

this place, died Saturday in Cumber-
land. Mrs. Wildman herselfis serious
ly i'll.
To the much-mooted question
show to tell horses age"-the JOUR-
NAL replies by first expressing its be-
lief in the unreliability of the practice
of surveying his teeth. A sure way is
to find out the year tie horse was foal-
ed, and get public school pupil of
six years standing to subtract it from
the current year. Thus: horse that
first saw the light in the spring of 1880
is 81 years old, or would be if he had
been careful of his health.
1t appears that William Crowly does
not somehow measure up to the occa-
sion, and William J. Lewis and Ed
ward Duffy, of this place, have issued
a challenge in Jack Crawford's behalf
which is calculated to bring all COM
petitors of that gentleman 70 the place
where sporting people either ,,put up"
or "shut up''. They will back Craw-
ford in any sum from $3.50 to 81, 900
for any grade of contest between soft
gloves and nude knuckles, and $50 is
already up to be covered within six
days.
The JOURNAL worked up its matter
to within small space of completion
by Wednesday evening in order to get
away to Luray. Articles subsequent
ly received are, therefore, left over,
among them "Observer," who. will be
accommodated next week if he will
then regard it as pertinent, and will
permit us to "tone it down."
The JOURNAL is panied to hear of
the death from malarial fever of
Emory Gardner Bennett, at Hunting
don. W. Va. Tuesday, August %, 1887.
aged 80 years, after an illness of two
weeks. Nearly sixteen years ago
Emory stood by us over the cradle of
the JOURNAL. For some time he was
our sole help and nobly sustained his
part of the trying ordeal. We SYM
pathize with those who are afflicted by
his death. Messrs. E. A. Bennett, of
Huntingdon, w. Va, ex-Audltor of
that State, and George L. Bennett, of
Roanoke, Va, are surviving brothers.
Now is the time to pull the weeds.
The growth in several gardens is
/ dense.
Frostburg City Lodge, No. So, X. of
p, will hold picnic and reunion at
this place about the middle of next
month. All the lodges Of that Order
have been invited and are expected to
attend. 1t is designed to throw all
other picnics in the shade.
About twenty persons of this place
took in the Luray excursion of Thurs
day. The day was cool, the party a
merry one, and the scenery in and out
of the caverns so bran new that all
returned delighted. The JOURNAL,
which is sometimes an individual, was
the recipient of many liberal attentions
going and returning. In Luray we
met many boyhood friends, ate two
dinners, and ga pretty grrl of we olden
time" revived some precious memories
by placing in our hands a boquet of
rare flowers. The few hours "few on
wings swift away" and after run over
a rapidly improving town, we boarded
the home-bound train. Approaching
Riverton, where the raihoad crosses
overh cad the Front Royal and Win
chester pike, some sensation was oc-
casioned by the wreck of two-horse
carriage, coming from the former
place. The scene was necessarily a
brief one. The horses had reared and
wheeled; one broke loose and started
toward Front Royal; the other fell
back upon the already overturned
vehicle, and underneath the latter were
two of the occupants-a lady and gen.
tleman. This was about the whole
story as seen from train moving quite
| rdpluiy.
1.-THE female wasp" says bright
exchange, "never stings." To make
this important piece of natural history
duly available and valuable, this
great paper will loan its powerful sup
port to that candidate for the legisla-
ture who will engage to pass law, if
elected. compelling every gentleman
wasp, for purposes of distinction, to
wear high plug hat, and every lady
wasp an Adelina Patti hustle. P.S.-
The necessity of action in this matter
is emphasized by the sad experience of
an excursionist Thursday to the caves
of Luray. While the train was resting
at Gooney an F. F. V. wasp, with
nothing ON his person to denote his sex,
entered car. In fact, he was entirely
nude. He explored the car pretty
thoroughly, as il looking for place to
stay all night. He had a hard time
getting out, though, after those who
had pre-empted the car, suspecting his
true character, got to thrashing at him.
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